Green, green, green and wet, wet, wet. . . We went into the woods yesterday in pouring rain to manicure (ever so slightly) the clearing where the wild yellow orchid colony (Yellow Lady Slipper) makes its home and to look for the first leaves of the wild pink orchid (Showy Lady Slipper) which will bloom in late June. The music of the day was not sunlight, but a drenching rainfall among the trees and throngs of songbirds warbling above our heads in the canopy. The steady patter of raindrops on the new maple leaves was soothing "stuff" indeed.I am certainly not complaining about yesterday's rain. The highlands are dry, and the rain is much needed if we are going to have a harvest this year. It was a balm to eyes and spirit yesterday to watch the new rows of rye, corn, barley, alfalfa and timothy coming up in the rain, the contour harrowed and sown rows of jaunty greenery wrapping gently around the fields and making splendid curves and spirals everywhere. Here and there, a solitary glacial drop stone stood sentry in the center of a wet field, and furrows of young greenery flowed around it, looking for all the world like the the artfully raked expanses of a Zen garden in sand and stone.
The scent of the rain wet earth was aromatic, robust and precisely that - wonderfully, gloriously earthy.
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Cate, you said it - there is a Zen quality to so much of what you offer here. A simple meditation on just what you see in these moments as you look, really LOOK at the wonders in your world. I find my visits here are very calming and peaceful. Thank you.
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We have had two days of rain here too and I welcome it after the long dry spell we've had. The Swallowtail butterfly in the previous post is incredibly beautiful - you are such a talented photographer.
It sounds wonderful! The world around you right now, all scented and wild from the rain.
We're going into our drought season. They've been calling for rain for over a week but it hasn't showed so I'm out there every time watering my new garden. I really am the water bearer right now!
I find I am watching your blog and photos for the moment when you catch up to us here in the Carolinas. I know you finish the growing season well ahead of us, and you began it well behind us. So somewhere in the middle you catch us... We have just started Queen Anne's lace, the semi-wild hemerocallis (brought from Europe and spread everywhere) has been blooming for a few days, and the elderberries have been in full bloom for a week or so. Here it begins to be summer. So I'm wondering at what point, in the annual botanical fugue, we will sound the same notes together, before Canada races on ahead. What plants do we watch at the same time? I'll be sure to let you know.
We have had a lot of rain this May, with the odd intense sunny day between rainy bouts. It certainly is making the plants shoot up, though everythings seems to be a little bit earlier this year.
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